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1. Orientation: Introduction to Southeast Asia

Law and Society in Southeast Asia - Introduction

2. Law in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia: Whither the Law and the State in Southeast Asian Histories?

M.B. Hooker, ‘The South-East Asian Law Texts: Cultural Borrowing and the Concept of Law’

James C. Scott, ‘Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia’

Tony Day, ‘Studying the State in Southeast Asia: Definitions, Problems, Approaches’ &amp; ‘Conclusion: Alternative States, Incongruous Region’

Tambiah, 'The Galactic Polity in Southeast Asia'

Kooria, 'The Dutch Mogharaer, Arabic Muḥarrar, and Javanese Law Books'

3. Southeast Asian Law and Society in Colonial Times

Week 3 Reading List

Week 3 PPT Slides: Southeast Asian Law and Society in Colonial Times

M.B. Hooker, ‘European Laws in South-East Asia’

Kevin Y.L. Tan, Andrew Huxley, A.R. Dicks, Jothie Rajah &amp; S.A. Farrar, ‘Southeast Asian Law’

M.B. Hooker, ‘The English Legal World’, ‘The French Legal World’, ‘The Dutch Legal World’ &amp; ‘The Spanish-American Legal World’

Diane Erica Kirkby, Roland J. Wenzlhuemer, Mason C. Hoadley, William Guéraiche, Carmen Alveal &amp; R. Jovita Baber, ‘Colonial Systems of Law’

A.J. Stockwell, ‘Conceptions of Community in Colonial Southeast Asia’

Tony Day &amp; Craig J. Reynolds, ‘Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and the State in Southeast Asia’

Craig A. Lockard, ‘Christians, Spices, and Western Expansion, 1500-1750’, ‘The Western Winds of Colonialism, 1750-1914’ &amp; ‘Colonial Impact and Changing Fortunes, 1800-1941’

Peter Burns, ‘Custom, That Is Before All Law’

Iza Hussin, ‘The Making of Islamic Law: Local Elites and Colonial Authority in British Malaya’

C. Fasseur, ‘Colonial Dilemma: Van Vollenhoven and the Struggle between Adat Law and Western Law in Indonesia’

4. Introduction to Thai Law and Political Institutions

Baker and Phongpaichit, The History of Thailand (2014), Chapter 4 Reforms, 1850s to 1910s

Bowring, Philip. Free Trades First Missionary : Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia, Hong Kong University Press, 2014, Chapter 19

Harding and Leyland, The Constitutional System of Thailand: A Contextual Analysis (2011) - Introduction

5. Thai Constitutionalism

McCargo D, ‘Competing notions of judicialization in Thailand’, Contemporary Southeast Asia: a journal of international and strategic affairs, 36.3 (2014), 417-441

Mérieau E, 'Thailand’s Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997–2015)', Journal Of Contemporary Asia Vol. 46.3 (2016), 445-466

Tonsakulrungruang, K &amp; Dressel, B, Judiciary and Judicialization in Thailand in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand (2019), Chapter 13

Constitution of Thailand (2007)

Constitution of Thailand (2017)

8. Colonialism, Law and the Question of the Archive: Lessons from Indonesia

Stoler, Colonial Archives

Guha, Chandra's Death

Farge, Allure of the Archive, p. 79-113

Ravensbergen, Rule of Lawyers

Burns, Custom that is before all Law

9. Discursive Opposition: Indonesian Domestic Workers and the Law

Week 9 Reading List

Ally "Domestic worker unionization"

Blackett: Law of household workplace

Blackett "Regulatory Innovation on Decent Work for Domestic Workers"

Jones "Whose stress - Emotion work in Middle Class Javanese Homes"

G.G. Weix: " Inside the home and outside the family"

Shiaishi "Silakan Masuk. Silakan Duduks: Reflections in a Sitting Room in Java"

Rother and Piper Alternative Regionalism from Below

10. Cambodia’s Extraordinary Chambers and the Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Period

Christensen &amp; Kjeldgaard-Pedersen 'Competing Conceptions of Hybrid Justice'

Heindel &amp; Ciorciari - ECCC Legacy

Kent - Conflict Continues (Cambodia, legacy)

MS Kelsall - Symbolic, Shambolic or Simply Sui Generis? Reflections from the Field on Cambodia's ECCC

Kiernan - Cambodia

Week 10: Legacies of the Cambodian ECCC / Khmer Rouge

11. Southeast Asia, ASEAN and Human Rights

Ciorciari_The ASEAN Human Rights System

Davies - An Agreement to Disagree

Li - Chapter 3: Self-determination and Democracy

Renshaw ASEAN

KarenEngleCultureandHuman

Bui The ASEAN Human Rights System

Week 11: ASEAN

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15PLAH049-A19/20 Law and Society in Southeast Asia A19/20

Tony Day, ‘Studying the State in Southeast Asia: Definitions, Problems, Approaches’ & ‘Conclusion: Alternative States, Incongruous Region’

Kevin Y.L. Tan, Andrew Huxley, A.R. Dicks, Jothie Rajah & S.A. Farrar, ‘Southeast Asian Law’

M.B. Hooker, ‘The English Legal World’, ‘The French Legal World’, ‘The Dutch Legal World’ & ‘The Spanish-American Legal World’

Diane Erica Kirkby, Roland J. Wenzlhuemer, Mason C. Hoadley, William Guéraiche, Carmen Alveal & R. Jovita Baber, ‘Colonial Systems of Law’

Tony Day & Craig J. Reynolds, ‘Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and the State in Southeast Asia’

Craig A. Lockard, ‘Christians, Spices, and Western Expansion, 1500-1750’, ‘The Western Winds of Colonialism, 1750-1914’ & ‘Colonial Impact and Changing Fortunes, 1800-1941’

Tonsakulrungruang, K & Dressel, B, Judiciary and Judicialization in Thailand in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand (2019), Chapter 13

Christensen & Kjeldgaard-Pedersen 'Competing Conceptions of Hybrid Justice'

Heindel & Ciorciari - ECCC Legacy